Presenter Carol, who will fly a 29,000 around the world with boyfriend, former Red Arrows pilot Graham Duff in tow, also named her heroine as Mildred Bruce.

Carol added: “Mildred would have been the first woman to solo around the world back in 1930 but for the fact that her fuel tanks weren’t big enough to cross the oceans…. she had to pack her little plane onto an ocean going liner to cross both the pacific and the atlantic.